Environmental and climate-change concerns are increasing the focus on becoming carbon-neutral, and in-turn, generating ideas for creating energy from natural resources. Government support for these projects is similarly increasing as is seen through the passage of various renewable energy legislation, renewable portfolio standards, net metering programs, fuel standards, energy incentives, and credits. The most common types of alternative or renewable energy projects currently include:
- Wind Energy
- Solar Energy
- Geothermal Energy
- Hydropower / Tidal Energy
- Biomass / Agricultural Energy
- Fuel Cell / Hydrogen Energy
- Biodiesel / Renewable Fuels
Clark Hill’s iGreenLaw team provides a broad array of nation-wide legal services to individuals, landowners, developers, investors, manufacturers, and project owners in their alternative, renewable, or sustainable energy projects and transactions. This representation includes financing, taxation, licensing, due diligence, siting, permitting, land and water rights, project operations, asset acquisition, development, construction, transmission interconnection, and regulatory issues.
Transactions involving renewable energy are often interconnected with other Green issues, which require an integrated approach. Clark Hill’s clients find the iGreenLaw team uniquely situated to manage these issues in a unified manner because of the broad range of experience and expertise in the many areas of climate change and sustainability.